Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The Most Famous Computer Programming Book In The World" video.

  1. Rust seems to be the most logical successor to C. The Linux kernel is starting to accept code written in Rust as an alternative to C. I remember this blog post from the Discord folks some months back. They had been using Go for their backend code, and they did some benchmarks with Rust, and found it offered much better performance. So they are switching their Go code to Rust.
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  2. C++ certainly still has some fans. But even those fans admit it has accumulated a load of baggage over the decades that needs to be jettisoned. Google created a new language called “Carbon”, which seems positioned as a more modern successor to C++.
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  3. LISP can be a great language for a mathematician, or at least a mathematically-inclined computer scientist. Go through the Structure And Interpretation Of Computer Programs book, and tell me if you agree.
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  4. So, more “Kerniğan”, like “Erdoğan”?
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  5. C23 finally drops compatibility with pre-ANSI function declarations! The writing is on the wall, K&R fanatics ...
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  6. C99 has been a sufficiently major change in so many ways: declarations intermingled with statements, stdint, stdbool, better support for IEEE-754 arithmetic (unheard of back in K&R days), and did you know you also have the option of using C++-style “and/or/not” instead of “&&/||/!” operators? Pity K&R was never updated to mention these. Unfortunately, it has little more than historical value nowadays.
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  7.  @mikeh39  All seasoned punched-card users knew how to deal with that.
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